According to government-sponsored research, Australia’s top companies have made little progress in getting women into the boardrooms.
The 2006 Australian Census of Women in Leadership, conducted by the Federal Government’s Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA), shows there has been only incremental improvement in the number of women board directors since the census was first conducted in 2002.
EOWA director Anna McPhee says, ‘women remain largely excluded from positions which have significant influence over Australia’s business direction, economy, public policy and the community generally’.
Australia’s progress is greater only to that of New Zealand’s, but lags the UK, Canada, South Africa and the United States.
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